KABUL – A drone strike targeted a hideout of the ISIS terrorist group ineastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, the defense authorities in theEast said.
The airstrike was carried out on Thursday by the US forces using unmannedaerial vehicles targeting the hideout of the terror group in the restiveAchin district.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the hideoutof the terror group was elimianted and a terrorist was killed in the raid.
According to the Silab Corps, the airstrike was carried out in the vicinityof Mamand area of Achin district.
The anti-government armed militant groups including the ISIS terroristshave not commented regarding the report so far.
Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in the East but theterrorist and anti-government armed militant groups have started theiroperations in some of its remote districts during the recent years.
This comes as at least two ISIS militants were killed in a similarairstrike in Achin district last Friday.
Earlier, at least eleven insurgents belonging to the terror group werekilled during an operation of the Afghan forces in this province last month.